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Quarantine!: East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892

Howard Markel 1999 © The Johns Hopkins University Press
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  • 9780801855122 (hardcover)
  • 9780801861802 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • INTRODUCTION The Concept of Quarantine (page 1)
  • PART I AVERTING A PESTILENCE The Typhus Fever Epidemic on New York's Lower East Side (page 13)
    • CHAPTER 1 The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia (page 15)
    • CHAPTER 2 The City Responds to the Threat of Typhus (page 40)
    • CHAPTER 3 The Results of the Quarantine (page 60)
  • PART II "CHOLERA MAY KNOCK, BUT IT WON'T GET IN!" Cholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York Harbor (page 83)
    • CHAPTER 4 Awaiting the Cholera: "Choleria!" (page 85)
    • CHAPTER 5 "Knocking Out the Cholera!" (page 101)
  • PART III LEGISLATING QUARANTINE Attempting to Restrict Immigration as a Cholera Preventive (page 135)
    • CHAPTER 6 Maintaining the Quarantine (page 137)
    • CHAPTER 7 The Doctors' Prescription for Quarantine (page 153)
    • CHAPTER 8 The Congress Responds (page 166)
  • EPILOGUE "The Microbe as Social Leveller" (page 183)
  • Notes (page 195)
  • Index (page 253)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 88.3 (Dec. 2001): 1100-1101 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28200112%2988%3A3%3C1100%3AQEEJIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
Isis 89.3 (Sep. 1998): 559-560 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199809%2989%3A3%3C559%3AQEEJIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
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